We stayed at Hancock City Park in Hancock, Michigan. (Campground Reviews listing.)

A nice waterfront(ish) site in a city park in the UP.

Dates:

• Check in: 2025-08-02
• Check out: 2025-08-09
• 7 nights

Weather:

• Mostly sunny, some rain
• High temps 75-84°F, lows 59-69°F
• A little wind, gusts to 20 MPH

Noise:

• No road noise
• No train horn noise
• Some neighbor noise

Site:

• #55, back-in, gravel
• Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
• Somewhat level site; high on passenger side; used hydraulic leveling
• Gravel driveway about 70 feet long by 16 feet wide
• 50 feet to neighbor on passenger side
• But path to beach on passenger side
• No neighbor on driver side
• Trees between sites
• Picnic table
• Fire pit
• Tall trees
• Mostly clean site
• Elevation 610 feet, front facing NW

Utilities:

• 50 amp power, conveniently located
• No water or sewer
• Potable water and dump station by entrance

Internet (in usage priority order):

• Starlink: 125-245 Mbps down, 20-35 Mbps up, 30 ms ping
• RoamLink: 70 Mbps down, 7-9 Mbps up, 135 ms ping (the RoamLink service picks the best network, so I’m not sure which one it used, other than not AT&T)
• AT&T: 8-10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up, 200-350 ms ping (I have AT&T on my iPhone)
• Campground Wi-Fi: not used

Amenities:

• Garbage dumpsters
• Waterfront

Our review on Campground Reviews:

Great basecamp for UP adventures

We stayed here for a week to explore Isle Royale NP and the UP and would happily stay here again; there’s just so much to do in the area. Our site was a back-in with a view over Portage Lake, and it was nice to watch the boats going out. This site had 50A electric, but no other utilities. Potable water and a dump station were conveniently near the exit. The site was spacious, which was nice, even if it did invite people to take a shortcut through it from the walking path. We camped at Hancock City Park in a Motorhome.

Campground map:

An interactive map:

Our site:

Been a while since we used the griddle… and haven’t used it since:

No water or sewer at our site, so I filled the water bladder at the dump station:

Pumping water from the bladder into the coach:

And pumping the black and gray tanks into the tote in the truck:

Dumping from the tote:

There was a path to the beach next to our site:

The beach:

We dipped our toes in Lake Superior:

Ranger III going by; the boat to Isle Royale (but we took a float plane instead, much faster):

A sailboat:

We tried Culver’s for the first time; perhaps overly friendly staff, but tasty food:

We would have preferred site 48; nicely tucked away, with no neighbors, and water view on the passenger side:

Site 53 would also be good; obviously set up as a front-in site (despite being mostly occupied by trailers awkwardly fronting in most of the time):

Other sites:

Tent site:

Check in office:

Playground:

Boat parking area:

Boat launch:

We’d be happy to stay here again (preferably in site 48 or 53, but site 55 was next best).